539. Iksan I. H. S., S. Ariyanto and E. Wahyuningsih are an EFL student and lecturers
An Analysis of the X.BHS.1 Students’ Listening
Comprehension
Achievement Tested by Using Entertainment Movie Clip at SMA
Muhammadiyah 3 Jember
Ikhsan Is Hardian Syarif, Sugeng Ariyanto, Eka Wahjuningsih
FKIP, The University of Jember
Abstract: This research was intended to describe students’ listening comprehension at secondary schools. The research design was Descriptive Research. The research area, SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember and the research respondents, the X.BHS.1 students were chosen purposively. The data were collected by using, interview, listening test, and documentation. The result showed that the students’ listening comprehension test scores were categorized good, and their mean score was 76,5. In details, the students’ ability in comprehending general information was 72,8% in which their ability was categorized as “fair”. Meanwhile, the students’ ability in comprehending specific information was 78,4% in which their ability was categorized as “good”. It can be concluded that using the entertainment movie clip promotes the students’ performance in listening comprehension.
Keywords: Students’ Listening Comprehension Achievement, Movie clip, Descriptive Research.
listening skill unconsciously and naturally first, before learning other skills. In other words, it can be said that listening is a fundamental skill in language learning.
Listening itself has many definitions from many different experts who have done some researches. According to Vandergrift (1999:168), listening is a complex, active process in which listener must discriminate between sound, understand vocabulary and grammatical structures, interpret stress and intonation, retain what was gathered in all of the above, and interpret it within the immediate as well as the larger sociocultural context of the utterance.”From this statement, it can be summarized that listening is complicated that both kinds of physical and mental processes are included. In other words, hearing and comprehending are two activities that cannot be separated from listening process and sometimes people are confused with the difference among them.
(UNAS) for junior and senior high school. Yet, the students still experience difficulties in achieving listening comprehension. For example, they do not understand the spoken language from the material given by the teacher or having difficulty to maintain concentration during the lesson and recognizing unfamiliar words.
Related to the condition, movie clip can be used as authentic materials in teaching and learning listening to help the students master listening comprehension. It provides both sound and vision. In line with this, Lonergan (1984:4) states that the combination between sound and vision is dynamic, immediate, and accessible. Here, dynamic means stimulating some input in a context. Meanwhile, immediate and accessible mean gaining information instantly. The students will easily perceive and get the knowledge they need within learning process by using movie clip.
some listening tasks after they had watched and listened to the movie clip given in the classroom. Further, the descriptive research on the use of movie clip was never conducted at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember. Therefore, it was still necessary to conduct a research on students’ listening comprehension achievement tested by using Entertainment Movie Clip at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember.
Research Method
The design of this research was descriptive research. Arikunto (1995:245) states that descriptive research is not intended to prove hypothesis, but it is intended to describe situation accurately and factually. This means that descriptive research is a type of research that tries to describe the real condition in the field. Dealing with this, the research area and the research respondents were chosen purposively. SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember was determined as the research area. Meanwhile, the students of X.BHS.1 were chosen as the respondents of the research as also recommended by the school teacher. Based on the information from the English teacher and the school documents, there were 25 students who were allowed to participate in this research.
Data analysis was needed to be done by the researcher in purpose of interpreting the information about the students’ listening comprehension achievement. The result of their listening comprehension test was analyzed by using the following formula:� =
�
�× 100 %, where E is the percentage of the students’ scores of the listening
comprehension achievement; n is the total of the students’ gained scores; and N is the total of the students’ scores (Ali, 1998:189)
Research Result
The result of the research showed that the ability of the students in comprehending main idea and specific information varied. The students’ listening comprehension mean score in the listening test was 76,5. The mean percentage of the students’ correct answer in comprehending the general information was 72,8% in which it was categorized as “fair”. While, the mean percentage of the students’ correct answer in comprehending the specific information was 78,4% in which it was categorized as “good”.
Discussion
The research result showed that the X.BHS.1 students’ listening comprehension of the specific information on the movie clip was better than that on the general one. This happened because in finding the general information, the students should summarize the information they received from the movie clip. This condition demanded the students to understand the whole content of the story in the movie clip. As Hennings (1997:156) states that listening for finding the general information is listening for finding the substance or the gist of the message. In other words, the general information is the facts or ideas that are implied or not purely stated in the story. Therefore, the students experienced more difficulties in answering the general information questions. They needed to think deeper to know and answer the questions of the listening comprehension test.
Conclusion
Based on the research result and discussion, it can be concluded that the X.BHS.1 students at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Jember were relatively good in comprehending the listening material through movie clip although their comprehension in both kinds of the general and specific information varied.
Therefore, the English teacher of the school should give the students more listening practices in order to make them familiar with the spoken English language. This means that they should practice more to develop their listening comprehension Further, the future researchers should conduct further research by using different research design.
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